Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 31

That song is not without its meaning,' said she, and so then she was determined to marry; but she would have a husband who knew how to give an answer when he was spoken to--not one who looked only as if he were a great personage, for that is so tiresome.

Who acts: song, Princess, husband, one, that · What happens: not be, say, be, marry, have, know · To what, where: husband, answer, great personage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, Princess, husband, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meaning	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 meaning	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 meaning	advmod
5	without	without	ADP	_	7 meaning	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 meaning	nmod:poss
7	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 meaning	parataxis
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 determined	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 determined	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 determined	advmod
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 determined	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 determined	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 determined	cop
18	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 marry	mark
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 determined	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 husband	det
27	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 knew	nsubj
29	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 husband	acl:relcl
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 give	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 give	mark
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 knew	ccomp
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 answer	det
34	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 spoken	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 spoken	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 spoken	aux:pass
38	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 give	parataxis
39	to	to	ADP	_	38 spoken	obl
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 looked	punct
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 one	advmod
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 looked	nsubj
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 looked	nsubj
44	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 spoken	parataxis
45	only	only	ADV	_	52 personage	advmod
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 personage	mark
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 personage	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 personage	nsubj
49	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 personage	cop
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 personage	det
51	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 personage	amod
52	personage	personage	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 looked	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 tiresome	punct
54	for	for	SCONJ	_	58 tiresome	mark
55	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	58 tiresome	nsubj
56	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 tiresome	cop
57	so	so	ADV	_	58 tiresome	advmod
58	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 looked	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 meaning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	that song			without song's meaning	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Princess		then	determined property	tree rules
4	marry	to-infinitive	Princess not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	have	would	Princess	a husband			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient
6	know	past	a husband				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	give	to-infinitive		a answer			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
8	speak speech: other	past · passive		husband			tree rules
9	look	past	one				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
10	is a	past	husband	a great personage			tree rules
11	is	present	that			tiresome property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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